Mary Poppins bored my 6 1/2 yo granddaughter to sleep.

[Atman]

Make no mistake, it’s an excellent movie...for adults looking for a fun escape. My granddaughter was done with it in the first 20 minutes, when the most exciting thing to happen is a banker shuffling paperwork. Way too much mortgage and banking talk to capture little kids.

Once the animated sequences started — far too late in the movie, granddaughter had practically given up, but she enjoyed the fantasy stuff. And it was brilliant. But then back to banking and mortgages, and granddaughter curled up in her chair and napped.

The other big gripe; it’s not really about Mary Poppins. Instead of Emily Blunt being the star, her MP lingered in the background of most scenes. The three kids carried all the weight while Mary just preened into any available mirror.

Go see it! It’s a fun bit of nostalgia for grown ups. Visually stunning. But wait for the Blu Ray for the kids, or you’ll be wasting $12 — Disney isn’t allowing discount/early bird/matinee tickets.

[underpants]

1. I didn't know that about Disney

[handmade34]

2. oh my...

was going to go see the movie tomorrow... with that visual, now I'm not sure

[Atman]

5. It's a good movie.

It’s worth seeing, but the kiddies will be bored. The big musical numbers are great (and I hate musicals), the old school 2D animation is perfect. I enjoyed it, but if my granddaughter’s reaction is any indication, Disney focused too much on making a nostalgia piece for us older folks, but not necessarily a joy ride for the kids.

[Wolf Frankula]

14. Coming Soon, A Clockwork Poppins

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Well well welly well well!

Wolf

[underpants]

15. Yes. Hilarious

[DUgosh]

3. Aquaman

Now there’s a movie I want to see again already!

[LisaM]

4. Did she like or watch the first Mary Poppins?

Even in the late 1980s, kids had lost the attention span for that movie. I LOVED it in the 60s. We acted out the parts, sang that songs, had puzzles. I took some little kids to see it in the 80s and even then, they were bored by parts of it.

[Atman]

6. Yes, she liked the first one.

That’s why I’m surprised.

[hlthe2b]

7. Oh, that is sad...

While i have nothing against a sequel, it still gives me pangs to see a MP movie without Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke--true treasures of entertainment IMO. Then to think that today's kids never really appreciated the original.... what a bummer.

[Docreed2003]

8. Spoiler alert...Dick's in the new movie...;-)

[hlthe2b]

9. Ohhh! I didn't know that. I adore him!

[Docreed2003]

10. It might not be obvious to the kids...

But my wife and I realized it immediately. It was definitely a fun touch!

[Mike Nelson]

11. I confess...

… I didn't really like the first one. I do like The Sound of Music and The Dick Van Dyke Show very much, tho... I did like a couple of the songs in the original Mary Poppins... Supercalifragilistic and the Chimney song. Can't say the movie was really good...

[LisaM]

12. The first one was very different from the books

It used to enrage my mother.

[Dave Starsky]

13. It enraged the author, too.

DisneyCo had to wait until she bought the farm in order to make a deal with her family to allow another one.

I love the original movie. It's one of my favorites. I never read any of the books, though.

[DFW]

16. Show her "Matilda" from Roald Dahl's story

I'll bet she won't sleep during THAT one!

[Luciferous]

17. That was one of my daughter's favorites when she was little